Mark your calendars! Other Worlds Orbiter, our monthly screening series, is back for 2018. Titles will be announced throughout the year in order to give us time to find the newest, most exciting indie SciFi & Horror to bring to Austin!

-May 23

-June 27

-July 25

-August 22

-September 19

-Oct 24

And you know what else? This year, we’re starting an Orbiter rewards program of sorts: attend 5 out of 6 Orbiter screenings and get a specially designed T-shirt! At our May & June screenings, we’ll be giving out punch cards. Simply check in when you attend a screening, an OWA staff member will give your card a punch, and at the end of the season, turn in your card to receive your special edition T-shirt that no one else will have at the festival!

In past Orbiter seasons, we’ve given you Austin, Texas, US and even North American premieres of independent SciFi & Horror features And we’ll always have a guest from each film whose brain you’re welcome to pick after you’ve watched. Get your indie film fix year-round, not just at our festival in December!

Of course, before we start the Other Worlds Orbiter series, we’ve gotta kick off the 2018 season with our annual FREE Star Wars Fan Film Screening on May the 4th!

Still finalizing the 2018 lineup, but in the past we’ve played everything from classic favorites like PINK FIVE and TROOPS (pictured) to winners from the annual Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards (TK-436: A STORMTROOPER STORY).

by Bears FonteSo by now everyone knows about Darkside of the Rainbow, the strange
synchronicity that occurs when you watch WIZARD OF OZ and listen to Pink
Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Carl Jung defined this
phenomenon as one in which coincidental events "seem related but are not
explained by conventional mechanisms of causality." Even though I will
argue you to death that Dorothy and Friends really do skip the yellow
brick road in time to the music and 2 ½ times though the album Dorothy
wakes up right as ‘Home, Home Again’ is sung, detractors decry the
marvels of this synergy as apophenia, or confirmation bias.
To them, the Darkside of the Rainbow dork (i.e. me) focuses on matching
moments while ignoring the greater number of instances where the film
and the album do not correspond at all.

Wherever
you stand on that occurrence, another Pink Floyd synchronicity exists,
and may actually be closer to being based in reality. This week is the
50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY, and you can celebrate by synchronizing the last 23
minutes of the film (Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite) with your copy of
Pink Floyd’s Meddle. For those of you who only own the two albums

standard issued to you in college (Dark Side and The Wall), Meddle is the 1971 masterwork that laid the ground work for what people think of as ‘classic’ Pink Floyd. It features the amazing instrumental opener 'One of These Days (I’m Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces)' and closes with the 23 minute long epic 'Echoes'.

Hmmm…. 23 minutes did you say? If you start 'Echoes' on the first frame of the title for Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, the music and film match up not just picturewise, but – more importantly I think – tone and atmosphere. I call this mash-up “Jupiter and the Echoes of the Infinite.” Watch it and be f-ing amazed.

By ERIC HARRELSON — So what is there to say about A QUIET PLACE? It feels somehow wrong to use words to describe a film that is so devoid of them itself. There are numerous comparisons to make, but for some reason it fails to capture the simple elegance of the film.

Now Streaming in April

By COURTNEY HAZLETT— Springtime in Texas means bluebonnets, rain, and
of course our beloved seasonal allergies. As pollen takes over our
city, you might be looking for something to keep you entertained during
your moments of indoor respite. Our favorite streaming services have a great lineup for April - no
foolin’! Check it out!

Flix Profile: Meet Kiki Whatley, Brewer

By DEBBIE CERDA — If I had to compare Kiki to a SciFi film character, it would be my
favorite female SciFi character Ellen Ripley of the ALIEN franchise --
competent, smart, resilient, willing to step up to any challenges, and
ready to kick ass. Find out more in this profile of Kiki Whatley: